how dangeroos is your job? [Archive] - SV650.org

keith_d

28-06-10, 08:42 PM

Well, one engineer decided to rock a storage system like a coke machine to get the back wheels over a lip onto a ramp. Unfortunately, it did exactly the same as a coke machine and toppled over, making him a candidate for a Darwin award. Fortunately, another member of the team got the job of going out to site and dealing with the police etc.

Apart from that we're pretty safe.

Shellywoozle

28-06-10, 08:42 PM

No danger in my job whatsoever I am glad to say :-)

DarrenSV650S

28-06-10, 08:47 PM

woooooosh

wyrdness

28-06-10, 08:52 PM

Did anyone see the 'Take Your Child to Work Day' cartoon in the current issue of Private Eye?

diamond

28-06-10, 08:53 PM

I don't consider it dangerous but most people wouldn't like to come into contact with the things i work with.

lukemillar

28-06-10, 08:55 PM

I don't consider it dangerous but most people wouldn't like to come into contact with the things i work with.

You're not a fluffer, are you?

diamond

28-06-10, 08:56 PM

You're not a fluffer, are you?
I had to google that, and no i'm definatley not a fluffer.:D

kellyjo

28-06-10, 08:58 PM

I had to google that, and no i'm definatley not a fluffer.:D

I think i may finally have found my vocation in life ;)

Electro

28-06-10, 09:05 PM

I want a fluffer (female) :)

El Saxo

28-06-10, 09:37 PM

I think i may finally have found my vocation in life ;)

I predict a lot of interest in finding your tent at the AR then! ;)

Lozzo

28-06-10, 09:43 PM

My job's as dangerous as I want it to be, all depends how I ride the demo bikes.

Jamesy D

28-06-10, 09:49 PM

Job? What job? I'm one of the unemployed masses.

My potential career is pretty dangerous though...

Seggons

28-06-10, 09:51 PM

Technically it's not the job that's dangerous, it's the way we go about doing some of the jobs that makes it so.

Sid Squid

28-06-10, 10:09 PM

Job? :confused:

Red Herring

29-06-10, 04:05 AM

Technically it's not the job that's dangerous, it's the way we go about doing some of the jobs that makes it so.

So true. My jobs not at all dangerous if I were to follow all the health and safety guidelines, unfortunately I wouldn't be very effective either.....:D

ixlr8

29-06-10, 05:43 AM

(Was until mashed tibia) Sole contractor m/cycle courier; I keep thinking I should sue myself for knowingly requiring me to endure unacceptably dangerous working conditions. But I can't decide if I should go for the pollution I'm-going-to die-of-diesel-poisoning aspect or the persistently-imminent-collision aspect.

Anyhow, that's finished, need new non-walking non-riding career.

timwilky

29-06-10, 06:40 AM

Many jobs carry that element of danger that has never been identified until such point were things go wrong and it goes totally tits up.

I know of electricians working alongside live bus bars having had their wooden ladders taken off them and given new aluminium ones. I know of test drivers drifting into arrestor beds causing partial brake failure and jack kniving trucks at high speed, I know of construction workers falling into continuous pour concrete projects. All of these causing death that on investigation it was unseen but still preventable.

Walking on the pavement can be dangerous. We have to accept that danger exists everywhere, try to mitigate the risk, but without causing undue obstruction to normal life.

454697819

29-06-10, 07:01 AM

staples can be sharp....

Stig

29-06-10, 07:04 AM

My job is dangerous. I'm in danger of falling asleep on my keyboard every day.

I used to play with tanks and guns and shoot people. That was interesting.

timwilky

29-06-10, 07:11 AM

My dads gardener died of tetanus. Who would think pruning roses was so dangerous

andreis

29-06-10, 07:45 AM

I write code as part of my job... If the persons using the software would ever get their hands on the name of the tw*t who wrote it, it would become pretty dangerous for me...

timwilky

29-06-10, 07:51 AM

I am currently writing code for the control of a fuel cell system. Now which valve air? is that hydrogen, whoops was that the methane. 800 degrees, is that Fahrenheit, Celsius or Kelvin.

So that fuel vent? what does it do again? Sometimes I am glad I am 200 miles from the operator

Quedos

29-06-10, 08:05 AM

as dangerous as I want it to be!
ned(chavs), knives, alcohol, drugs needles you name it and we don't have the same protection as the cops
we're tough we are!

Personally i think we're mental!

maviczap

29-06-10, 08:09 AM

The risk assesments for the areas I have to work in mention 'Death' as a consequnce of not doing something correctly or ignoring a proceedure, so in some respects quite dangerous. Although stupidity doing what I do is whats going to kill anyone doing what I do, although there are still plenty of stupid people about :confused:

dizzyblonde

29-06-10, 08:19 AM

Unfortunately one of my colleagues died in a work related accident two years ago. Many of us that worked closely with him still think it could have been prevented if we weren't understaffed at times.
I won't go into detail as its horrific, and one young man will have it hanging over his head forever, although purely accidental.

It wasn't death by chocolate though.!

Jayneflakes

29-06-10, 08:22 AM

I was a climbing Instructor for a while and used to teach lead climbing. Being a bit of a maniac I would some times solo climb (No rope or harness) up next to my student, which got interesting if I was teaching on a multi pitch (more than one rope length) route. I was running a climbing wall at the time and climbed every day, at my best I was climbing E3 6a. :smt061

My technical data sheets for equipment are full of warnings about falling off cliffs, but as I always said, it only hurts for a minute! :reaper:

I gave it all up though in 2006 and can barely climb a V-Diff while roped up these days. :-$

Bri w

29-06-10, 08:30 AM

I drive a desk - the wife's coffee can be hot I guess.

But when on the tools I suppose there were some dangers. Volts and pressures.

Also the consequences of getting the servicing wrong could be quite dangerous - anaesthetic machines & ventilators. "Sorry you're still awake sir but do you mind if we just cut here.?" Or, "wake up damn you!"

maviczap

29-06-10, 08:38 AM

Also the consequences of getting the servicing wrong could be quite dangerous - anaesthetic machines & ventilators. "Sorry you're still awake sir but do you mind if we just cut here.?" Or, "wake up damn you!"

Dangerous for them (us) , not neccessarily you Bri :p

Unless an unwanted law suit or angry relatives also counts.

But I'm sure we're in safe hands

Owenski

29-06-10, 09:09 AM

Its been occasionally known for people to get paper cuts around the office, those feckers hurt!

I've never stubbed a toe or anything but obviously Im extremely cautious.

So basically no! My job is boring and predictable :(

BernardBikerchick

29-06-10, 09:10 AM

very i want to staple things to most people i work with on a daily basis !

maviczap

29-06-10, 09:17 AM

Everyones missed the point of the original question

Its not about how dangerous but how dangeroos

Roo's (kangaroo's) can be pretty dangerous, they box pretty well, bloomin big feet to kick you hard and will make a mess of your bike if you hit one :rolleyes:

Not many in the UK, except on Dartmoor I think :p

29-06-10, 09:28 AM

454697819

29-06-10, 09:33 AM

People die every year in my line of work which is construction. Even more get injured.

I have been offered a job offshore which is supposed to be even more dangerous... and I am currently going through the final process of another job which is argueably pretty dangerous.

Construction and construction offshore must rank pretty highly though.

yes they do

what I cannot understand is the state of some of these big sites in london, how they don't kill anyone is by luck not judgement.

I used to be based on site and was a first aider along side my main work but my new job is much more detached..

gettin2dizzy

29-06-10, 10:02 AM

I used to make bombs :lol:

Biker Biggles

29-06-10, 01:36 PM

I don't consider it dangerous but most people wouldn't like to come into contact with the things i work with.

I could say the same about my job.;)

Viney

29-06-10, 01:54 PM

Mine is highly dangerous.

I work with numpties that have no effin clue what they are doing. I also work with carcogenic(sp?) materials, work in a room filled with Ozone, operate a razor sharp guilotine, and i may even get a paper cut.

plowsie

29-06-10, 02:49 PM

Papercuts is the worst for me.

Viney

29-06-10, 03:20 PM

Considering i handle around half a million sheets of paper a month i get off pretty lighty when it comes to paper cuts

plowsie

29-06-10, 03:21 PM

Hold on, I do have to operate a guillotine every once in a while.

maxinc

29-06-10, 03:49 PM

I tend to press Delete unnecessarily sometimes. That could potentially lead to security & confidentiality breaches, lawsuits, business closures, people loosing their jobs and turning to alcohol and domestic violence.

kellyjo

29-06-10, 03:55 PM

Sometimes my index finger aches after scrolling the mouse wheel reading the .org all day :p

Being a full-time single mum to three is definitely dangerous to ones sanity though!!!!

Milky Bar Kid

29-06-10, 03:56 PM

So dangerous it made my finger bleed on Sunday night!!

Bluefish

29-06-10, 04:10 PM

I used to make bombs :lol:

I used to deliver them.

gettin2dizzy

29-06-10, 04:20 PM

I used to deliver them.

Good stuff, which ones?

davepreston

29-06-10, 04:48 PM

I used to make bombs :lol:

I used to deliver them.
and i had to disarm them
you fecking terrorist barstewards
:D

gettin2dizzy

29-06-10, 04:49 PM

If I'd know I would have left a note ;)

Specialone

29-06-10, 04:56 PM

Im a bit like reg prescott (of kenny everet sketch shows), i cut myself at least twice a week, my hands are covered in scars.

Im doing a conservatory atm and ive been wearing shorts so my legs are scratched to fook off the brickwork etc.

Always banging my head on stuff as i look down to make sure im not gonna trip over stuff.

I dont wear PPE to be honest apart from safety glasses as its annoying and i dont do site work so im responsible for me.

I once jigsawed my finger nail, while i put my hand underneath the workpiece to see if it was gonna cut into a toolbox i was leaning on, but forgot to wait for the blade to stop ;)

Im a good builder though honest :rolleyes:

Biker Biggles

29-06-10, 04:58 PM

If I'd know I would have left a note ;)

"Cut this wire first":confused:

"Or this one":rolleyes:

"No not that one":smt072

diamond

29-06-10, 05:01 PM

I'm alright i'm vaccinated against most of the stuff i work with, it's those around me that should be concerned.

thulfi

30-06-10, 12:40 AM

Well seeing as this is an SV forum, not a toyota celica forum, I bet the commute is the most dangerous aspect of peoples jobs here.

I guess when I graduate and become a doc(hopefully) the danger of getting it wrong will be more dangerous for the poor sod on the bed:shock:

Sudoxe

30-06-10, 06:31 AM

In between the high voltage mains, DC battery rooms, big UPS', raised floors, automatic gas release fire suppression systems, free standing 7ft cabinets full of computers, enough cabling to circle the moon, and the fricking lazers I'm doing fairly well. I've been locked in changes, trapped under a raised floor and gassed once.

However, the real danger in my job is taking a day out of the office. Working with 2 co-workers who are as technical and devious as me, pranks in the office are taken to a new level.

One current project on the drawing board is installing a car coil into a coworkers chair, so we can tazer him on demand...

Littlepeahead

30-06-10, 10:26 AM

My biggest risks are getting hit by a cricket ball during practice sessions when the lads do tend to aim for me to watch me try and leap out of the way in high heels. Or choking to death on a slice of cake during the tea interval.

Shellywoozle

30-06-10, 10:32 AM

No danger in my job whatsoever I am glad to say :-)

I lied ........ when a call comes in an I am on the loo I have the danger of soiling myself :( and they put a tone over the radio that makes me jump out my skin which doesnt help when ya in mid dump.

Lozzo

30-06-10, 10:59 AM

I lied ........ when a call comes in an I am on the loo I have the danger of soiling myself :( and they put a tone over the radio that makes me jump out my skin which doesnt help when ya in mid dump.

Subtle as a flying house-brick :D

demonicus

30-06-10, 11:34 AM

+1 disturbing mental image shell.

demonicus

30-06-10, 11:38 AM

i build transformers. if it wasnt for health and safety, which i follow to the letter(cough) i would fall off tall stuff or have several kv up my backside. not to mention other idiots like me with hydraulics and pnuematics at their disposal to abuse oh and hammers dropping on you.apart from that we order kebabs at night which is possibly the most dangerous part

Captain Nemo

30-06-10, 12:20 PM

Well a few years ago, we were below our budget for deaths on site. But things have changed these days, we are no longer allowed to think of deaths as an inevitable part of working in the far east

Jesus Tim, what site was that you work in IT !!!, installing network points in a minefield?

timwilky

30-06-10, 01:00 PM

Jesus Tim, what site was that you work in IT !!!, installing network points in a minefield?

That would be this
http://daserste.ndr.de/reportageunddokumentation/pilawaswelt132_v-dasErstegross.jpg

When I worked at Yue Yang I actually went up a stack

metalangel

30-06-10, 03:11 PM

Work itself isn't dangerous, walking to it can be given we have to walk either through Grangetown or on the main railway line.

chasey

30-06-10, 03:23 PM

Most dangerous part of my job is the risk of an RSI from typing, mouse clicking and going outside for a smoke.

Hoping for a big change in career once I have my fitness levels up which could potentially make things dangerous. Though until I can run a mile and a half in sub 9 minutes I am stuck in an office

Seggons

30-06-10, 05:02 PM

i build transformers.

So which one did you build? ;)

http://yazmar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/transformers-bumblebee_optimus-prime_autobots.jpg

Razor

30-06-10, 05:37 PM

Jamesy D

30-06-10, 06:45 PM

Hoping for a big change in career once I have my fitness levels up which could potentially make things dangerous. Though until I can run a mile and a half in sub 9 minutes I am stuck in an office

HM Forces?

Weirdfish

30-06-10, 10:26 PM

I've had 2 occasions in the past 10 years that got me seriously worried that I may not be going home at the end of a shift. Still keeps you on your toes!:)

Razor

30-06-10, 11:09 PM

today i nearly had fisticuffs with a security guard, jobsworths the lot of 'em

chewmyr00t

30-06-10, 11:24 PM

i build transformers.

Did you build Optimus Prime? I think he's the coolest! :)

My job is quite dangerous at the moment. Sometimes my staedler pencil lead snaps and I have to risk sharpening it again. It just gets crazy sometimes! :smt072

Although, when I'm not studying I work with these.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chewmyr00t/4273924086/

SoulKiss

01-07-10, 07:35 AM

as dangerous as I want it to be!
ned(chavs), knives, alcohol, drugs needles you name it and we don't have the same protection as the cops
we're tough we are!

Personally i think we're mental!

You're a PCSO ????

HEHEHEHEHE

chasey

01-07-10, 10:16 AM

HM Forces?

Yeah...hopefully. I started applying last year but had some crap happen when I was meant to be going to selection. I have had a long think, decided what I really want to do in life and am re-applying next Jan (This gives me enough time to acheive where I want my fitness levels to be). If it all plans out I can hopefully say goodbye to Oracle databases :D

demonicus

01-07-10, 11:44 AM

bumblebee. thats why his voice processor doesnt work and he was rusty.

Jamesy D

01-07-10, 03:34 PM

Yeah...hopefully. I started applying last year but had some crap happen when I was meant to be going to selection. I have had a long think, decided what I really want to do in life and am re-applying next Jan (This gives me enough time to acheive where I want my fitness levels to be). If it all plans out I can hopefully say goodbye to Oracle databases :D

Aaaah, I know how it feels to have stuff happen, I was meant to be joining up about a month ago (TA), but after passing my interview and preparing to go on selection I snapped a ligament in my knee and will be out for 18 months.

Best of luck to you :)

Messie

01-07-10, 04:54 PM

Pre-menstrual Year 10 girls. Nuff said

Sally

01-07-10, 05:36 PM

[QUOTE=G;2307395]People die every year in my line of work which is construction. Even more get injured.

I have been offered a job offshore which is supposed to be even more dangerous... and I am currently going through the final process of another job which is argueably pretty dangerous.QUOTE]

Depends where you go, but North Sea (especially the Norwegian sector) is quite safe.

gettin2dizzy

01-07-10, 05:43 PM

ChrisSV

01-07-10, 06:15 PM

Im a maintenance engineer (in training) for a large car manufactuer, so atm i get to work with big open converyours, ovens, presses, injection moulding machines, big welding robots, carcinagenic materials, explosive enviroments,high voltages, other hazardous material, and power tools :D so tis all good.
But tbh, weve only had 2 fatalities in 18years, and they were both contractors, and the health and safety is very, very good, even if a bit of a pain at times.

chasey

01-07-10, 06:15 PM

Aaaah, I know how it feels to have stuff happen, I was meant to be joining up about a month ago (TA), but after passing my interview and preparing to go on selection I snapped a ligament in my knee and will be out for 18 months.

Best of luck to you :)

Snapped ligament...Not nice!

What are you hoping to join if you don't mind me asking?

Jamesy D

01-07-10, 08:58 PM

Snapped ligament...Not nice!

What are you hoping to join if you don't mind me asking?

Well I'm going TA infantry with my local regiment, PWRR, but after uni I want to go to Sandhurst and go to the Royal Artillery. Family connections and all that :) What you destined for, if I may?

And yeah, it does suck a little. Gotta have a reconstruction in August, which will be interesting. Then it's all the physio of recovery.

chasey

01-07-10, 09:12 PM

Well I'm going TA infantry with my local regiment, PWRR, but after uni I want to go to Sandhurst and go to the Royal Artillery. Family connections and all that :) What you destined for, if I may?

And yeah, it does suck a little. Gotta have a reconstruction in August, which will be interesting. Then it's all the physio of recovery.

The Para's hopefully. Last time I applied for Ammo Tech with a view to doing P company after I had done high threat EOD course (which would have been 8 years making assumptions I passed all the testing and what not). Life is too short though and I have always wanted to be in the Para's. Even more so after reading 3 Para by Patrick Bishop and the follow up book to that, Ground Truth...well worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

I must say though - one thing that annoyed me during the last application process was the amount of poeple who spoke about when I leave the army...I hadn't even started and I was expecting to be thinking about leaving. Obvioulsy understandable if I was a 16 year old and had a wet dream over firing a gun but I am not! :p

Jamesy D

01-07-10, 10:07 PM

The Para's hopefully. Last time I applied for Ammo Tech with a view to doing P company after I had done high threat EOD course (which would have been 8 years making assumptions I passed all the testing and what not). Life is too short though and I have always wanted to be in the Para's. Even more so after reading 3 Para by Patrick Bishop and the follow up book to that, Ground Truth...well worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

I must say though - one thing that annoyed me during the last application process was the amount of poeple who spoke about when I leave the army...I hadn't even started and I was expecting to be thinking about leaving. Obvioulsy understandable if I was a 16 year old and had a wet dream over firing a gun but I am not! :p

Paras? You sir are crazy. I intend to do P Coy at some point, but not when I'm fresh out of training! Actually I want to do All Arms commando, but similar concepts. Best of luck to you man, but I can understand why you're worried about fitness.

And leaving the army is a real thing these days, people will spend 5 years in and then go find other things - career soldiers are rarer than they were 20 years ago. Still exist of course, but less intend to stay for the long haul.

diamond

02-07-10, 07:13 AM

andyb

02-07-10, 11:14 AM

Can i just ask why you are going TA and not UOTC if you aim is to go reg officer after uni?
I only ask as i am involved in TA recruit training and it's not the normal route we see.

Noooooo, he'll be Oz MkII if he goes to UOTC :)

diamond

02-07-10, 11:32 AM

Noooooo, he'll be Oz MkII if he goes to UOTC :)
:D better than being GR

Jamesy D

02-07-10, 03:09 PM

Can i just ask why you are going TA and not UOTC if you aim is to go reg officer after uni?
I only ask as i am involved in TA recruit training and it's not the normal route we see.

Well, originally I was intending to have half of this year, all of next year and a gap year spent in the TA, and then when I popped off to uni I would have the option of doing either/or, and I even know some people who do both TA and UOTC at uni.

However, with the injury and allsorts that plan is currently under repair.

chewmyr00t

04-08-10, 01:45 PM

To be honest I think your mad. I prefer to 'check in' rather than 'dig in' so 13 years ago I decided to join up to 'Fly above the rest', lol. I've been on helicopters for the past 8 years and go everywhere with the army. In the army your treated like sh!t. I wouldn't put up with it. Although, which ever service you join, everyone always talks about getting out as soon as possible. Personally, I love my job. Now I'm on £35k with my aircraft licences but in the next few years will be looking for a job when I get out of at least £50k.

hindle8907

04-08-10, 01:53 PM

Verry Dangerous I have to ware a gas mask every day as this girls breath on reception is like off milk mixed with Dog dung and if i was to breath it in then I think I would be dead.
so very very dangerous hahahah

MattCollins

04-08-10, 03:00 PM

I've seen some crazy stuff around exploration rigs and there are a few areas where I do not like to work underground. The biggest risk I face on a daily basis is the number of miles I put in with the numpties on the road or in remote areas where a serious crash could result in my bones not being found for a while.
The family business is cattle and there are plenty of dangers. Fortunately people do not get hurt or die too often.